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Newspaper
Preston Citizen
Location
Preston, Idaho, United States of America
Date
Nov 15, 1945
Page
9
Local residents report travel for milder climates, family visits, military promotions, and hospital events. Ada Keller to Arizona with brother, L. Floyd Keller. Miss Adaline Hart returns from missionary service. several soldiers on leave from the Pacific theater visit Preston families. News includes antique markets, piano company talks, and community dances planned.
The report notes Pvt Loyd Reed visiting Dorin Porter’s family after leave from New York en route to California. Elders Simpson and Shumway spoke at a sacrament meeting. Reed Long works as a truck driver in Ogden. Thayne Harris was discharged and stays with the Knapps. The Seagull and Guide class aided by Lillian Porter and Carma Long held baptisms for the dead in Logan. Vonda Long and Melva Larsen visited Salt Lake City. Bernard Inglet and family visited Earl Bowcut. A bishop’s son named Harry Knapp died in a snow related cave‑in on Sunday morning.
The United States Employment Service reports unemployment edging toward Preston as war industries close and veterans seek civilian work. It urges local employers to file open positions to match returning servicemen with jobs and reduce future unemployment compensation.
The annual high school fall music concert will be held Friday November 30 at 8 p m in the Preston High School auditorium.
Posthumous award citation details Pfc Leonard C Brostrom of Company F 17th Infantry for single handed assault on a key pillbox near Dagami Leyte on October 28 1944. He threw grenades from an exposed position despite wounds and enemy fire, enabling his company to retake the position. He died of wounds received in the action. Born November 23 1919 in Preston Idaho he served two years on a LDS mission before enlisting March 16 1942. He trained in California and Maryland and went overseas March 1944. Survivors include his parents and three brothers.
The choir boasts 76 members with 55 in the Glee club and plans eight numbers. Two soloists will perform and four pieces feature Glee club collaboration. The girls chorus sings two numbers and the boys chorus one. A girls sextet will also perform.
Mrs Ben Spencer and daughter Judy returned from Pocatel lo to visit her parents the McGregors. Leora Garrish plans a winter with her sisters Roma Anderson and Connie McGregor, traveling from Bangor with two children. Elder Ernest Skinner of Grace spoke at Sacrament meeting. Lenore McGregor and Barbara McGregor visited from the Southern Branch. Sybil McGregor and Lola Panter attended Sunday School at Williams ward. MI A social of Mound Valley and Cleveland occurred at Cleveland Church house with food and a program. Floyd Erickson Lorin McGregor and families hosted dinner with Dawn McGregor on Sunday. S L Smith and Dean visited from Riverdale. Douglas Bennett family sold their property and plan to move near Pocatello. Owen D Clegg and two children Robert and Ruth Lee visited Sunday.
Thirty two stars appear Sunday to Wednesday at the Grand for Arch ie and his gang with Duffy's Tavern on screen. The Paramount film features Ed Gardner Bing Crosby Betty Grable and many more in a Melvin Frank Norman Panama story about Archie's foray into high finance and a hay fever cure for Duffy.
The piece lists state officials and candidates including State Sen Perry Mitchell, James Hawley, and John Carver amid a Democrat focus on naming a Thomas post successor. Republicans push Dworshak as a strong senatorial candidate while ward chairmen and quotas for county campaigns are detailed across Army Navy Air Corps districts with local donors and amounts.
Farm record books help track income and expenses for the past year. Prepared especially for new income tax records.
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